Surgical protection device for a surgical sealing element and surgical sealing system

Surgical sealing system, comprising:

• a trocar with a trocar sleeve,
• a surgical sealing element having an insertion opening adapted to be widened and being held on the trocar sleeve for sealing the insertion opening during insertion of a surgical instrument, and
• a surgical protection device for the sealing element, said protection device comprising:
• a base member adapted to be arranged on the trocar or on the sealing element, the base member being in a ring shape or essentially in a ring shape and defining an opening, and
• several protection elements arranged in a circumferential direction on said base member and pointing parallel or towards a longitudinal axis of the protection device,
• said protection elements each having a free end pointing essentially in a distal direction,
• wherein:
• at least some of the protection elements each have a retaining element on an outer side at the free end or in the area of the free end for engagement with the sealing element;
• the retaining elements have a shape making it possible for them to become caught in the sealing element;
• each of the retaining elements have a tip pointing away from the corresponding protection element;
• and
• the protection elements bearing retaining elements are longer than the protection elements without retaining elements.